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"Your letters [have] given me pain [in that] they censured the proceedings of the Jacobins of France. I considered that sect as the same with the Republican patriots....The liberty of the whole earth was dependent on the contest...but rather than it [French Revolution] should have failed, I would have seen half the earth desolated. Were there but an Adam & Eve left in every country, & left free, it would be better than as it now is" [italics mine] (Jefferson, January 3, 1793 letter to William Short, q in Peterson).
"I cannot but hope that the "disgrace of the invading tyrants [Catholic Austria's failed invasion of France at the end of the Revolution] is destined... to kindle the wrath of the people of Europe against those who dared to embroil them in such wickedness, and to bring at length, kings, nobles, & priests to the scaffolds which they have been so long deluging with human blood"(Jefferson, May 1, 1794 letter to Tench Coxe, q in Peterson).
"Being...a warm zealot...for mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to [that] of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavours to obtain this should have been attended with...so much blood. I was intimate with the leading characters of...1789. So I was with those of the Brissotine party who succeeded them & have always been persuaded that their views were upright. Those that followed have been less well known to me [italics mine], but I have been willing to hope that they also meant the establishment of a free government in their country [France], excepting perhaps the party [Robespierre, Saint Just, Danton, and Marat] which has lately been suppressed" (Jefferson, April 29, 1795 letter to Jean Nicolas Demeunier, q in Peterson).
"I have lately...got sight of [the 3rd volume] of the Abbe Barruel's 'Antisocial Conspiracy,' which gives me the first idea I have ever had [?] of what is meant by the Illuminatism against which...Morse [has] been making such a hue and cry. Barruel's own parts of the book are perfectly the ravings of a Bedlamite. But he quotes largely from Weishaupt whom he considers the founder of what he calls the Order [of the Illuminati]. [You] may not have had an opportunity of forming a judgment of this cry of 'mad dog' which has been raised against his doctrines. Weishaupt
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seems to be an enthusiastic Philanthropist. He is among those (as you know the excellent Price and Priestly also are) who believe in the indefinite perfectibility of man. He thinks He may in time be rendered so perfect that He will be able to govern himself in every circumstance so as to injure none, to do all the good He can, to leave government no occasion to exercise [its] powers over Him, & of course to render political government useless. This you know is [William] Godwin's doctrine, and this is what [John] Robinson, [Abbe] Barruel, and [Jedediah] Morse had called a conspiracy against all government.
"Weishaupt believes that to promote this perfection of human character was the object of Jesus Christ. That his [Jesus'] intention was simply to reinstate natural religion, & by diffusing the light of his morality, to teach us to govern ourselves. His precepts are the love of god & love of our neighbor. And by teaching innocence of conduct, he expected to place men in their natural state of liberty & equality. He [Weishaupt] says that no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our Grand Master [Masonic term], Jesus of Nazareth. He [Weishaupt] believes [that] the Freemasons were originally possessed of the true principles & objects of Christianity, & have still preserved some of them by tradition, but much disfigured.
"The means he [Weishaupt] proposes to effect this improvement of human nature are 'to enlighten men,...correct their morals, & inspire them with benevolence. Secure of our success, says he, we abstain from violent commotions. To have foreseen the happiness of posterity & to have prepared it by irreproachable means, suffices for our felicity. The tranquility of our consciences is not troubled by the reproach of aiming at the ruin or overthrow of states or thrones.' As Weishaupt lived under the tyranny of a despot & priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading information & the principles of pure morality. He proposed [as a new member in 1777] therefore to lead the Freemasons to adopt this object & to make the objects of their institution the diffusion of science & virtue. He proposed to initiate new members into his body by gradations proportioned to his fears of the thunderbolts of tyranny. This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment [by the Bavarian government in 1786]...[for] the subversion of the Masonic
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order, & is the colour [cause] for the ravings against him of Robinson, Barruel, & Morse, whose real fears are that the craft [Freemasonry] would be endangered by the spreading of information, reason, & natural morality among men....I believe that...you [James Madison] will think with me that if Weishaupt had written here [in the U.S.], where no secrecy is necessary in our endeavors to render men wise & virtuous, he would not have thought of any secret machinery for that purpose...."[italics mine] (Jefferson, January 31, 1800 letter to "Bishop" James Madison, q in Peterson).
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" (Thomas Jefferson, 1800 letter to Benjamin Rush, q in Seldes).
"It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist [naturalist]. He takes the side of Spiritualism....I find many passages of [Jesus to be] fine imagination, correct morality, and...lovely benevolence....Others [are] of so much ignorance,...absurdity,...untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being. I separate, therefore, the gold from the dross...and leave the latter to the stupidity of some [and] the roguery of other of his disciples. Of this band of dupes and impostors, Paul was the great Coryphaeus, and the first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus" [italics mine] (Thomas Jefferson, 1820 letter to W. Short, apparently in regard to Jefferson's redacted version of the New Testament [The Jefferson Bible], q in Seldes).
"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend...to the happiness of man...but compare these with the demoralizing dogmas of Calvin: 1. That there are three Gods. 2. That good works, or the love of our neighbor, is nothing. 3. That faith is everything and [that] the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit the faith. 4. That reason in religion is of unlawful use. 5. That God, from the beginning, elected certain individuals to be saved and certain others to be damned, and that no crimes of the former can damn them [and that] no virtues of the latter save [them]" (Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Waterhouse, June 26, 1822, q in Seldes).
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"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy" (James Madison, August 4, 1832 letter to W. T. Barry, q in Seldes).
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths" (James Madison, n.d., q in Kershaw).
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations" (Madison's address to Virginia Convention, June 16, 1788, q in Seldes).
"In the Papal [Roman Catholic] system, Government and Religion are...consolidated, and that is found to be the worst of Government" (Madison 1832 letter to 'the Reverend Adams').
"If tyranny and oppression come into this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" (James Madison, n.d.). Note to reader: The excuse for the tyranny and oppression being imposed by the Rothschild Illuminati controlling President George W. Bush is the manufactured, never-ending Orwellian "War on Terrorism."
"The Hebrew have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations" (John Adams, February 16, 1809 letter to F. A. Van der Kamp).
Note to reader: John Adams evidently believed that the Enlightenment had liberated the Jews to the extent that they, like his fellow paleo-Masons, were philosophically and financially committed to overthrow the power of the Catholic Church and free mankind from its tyranny. But like Jefferson, he did not know that the Talmudic government, through the Rothschilds and Adam Weishaupt, had in mind a far greater tyranny, a Communist World Government ruled by messianic Jews. Franklin and Washington were not misled by the duplicity of the
